Places of interest in England

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London

Houses of Parliament
Seat of the British
parliament
Big Ben part of
Houses of Parliament

Buckingham Palace
Residence of the
queen
Change of the Guard
every day, takes 45
minutes

Tower of London
Founded by William
the Conqueror in
1066-7
royal palace and
fortress, prison and
place of execution,
mint, arsenal,
menagerie and jewel
house.

 Guarded by the
Beafeeters
Their number is 36

St, Pauls Cathedral

the masterpiece of Sir
Christopher Wren.
Built between 1675
and 1710
Whispering gallery

Westminster Abbey
many kings, queens,
poets, writers and
other famous
inhabitants of the UK
are buried there

Other places

8 Royal parks
Maritime Greenwich
Trafalgar square with Nelson Column
National gallery
National Museum
Tower bridge
Museum of wax statues
London Eye

Windsor

 one of three
official residences
of The Queen
the largest
inhabited castle in
the world and the
oldest in
continuous
occupation

Oxford
The oldest university in England
Founded in 13th century

 One of the
highlights of Oxford
is the Radcliffe
Camera on
Radcliffe Square
designed by James
Gibbs in the
English Baroque
style

Stonehenge

 Located on Salisbury plain

Built aproximately in 4th millenary B.C.

Winchester
the most important city in England until the
eleventh century

The English Lake District National

Park

 885 square miles in

size
1800 miles of
footpaths

Bath
Built by Romans
Few kilometres southwards from Bristol
Gothic cathedral

Exeter
One of the liveliest
cities in the southwest
Cathedral - Englands
finest example of
decorated Gothic
architecture